Tenderness: outlining the anthropological perspective of femininity

Tuberculosis: an Anthropological Perspective

Tuberculosis is a contagious and destructive disease that has plagued humans and their domesticated animals for at least 6000 years (Morse, Brothwell, and Ucko 1964), and continues to be a serious disease worldwide. Like most infectious diseases, the virulence of tuberculosis constantly fluctuates as changes occur in the host, the pathogen, and the environment. For example, in the United States...

An anthropological perspective on obesity.

An anthropological perspective on obesity considers both its evolutionary background and cross-cultural variation. It must explain three basic facts about obesity: gender dimorphism (women greater than men), an increase with modernization, and a positive association with socioeconomic status. Preindustrial diets varied in quality but shared a tendency to periodic shortages. Such shortages, part...

Learning in Culture: Anthropological Perspective

ANTHROPOLOGISTS cannot be said to have a theory of learning of their own. They borrow and apply concepts from behavioristic approaches in psy chology, from theories of learning, from social psychology, and particularly from psychoanalysis. 1 This has made anthro pological perspectives on learning some what less than systematic, but it has kept them flexible. Until the influence of Edward Sapir,...

The Cultural Constitution of Cognition: Taking the Anthropological Perspective

To what extent is cognition affected by culture? And how might cognitive science profit from an intensified collaboration with anthropology in exploring this issue? In order to answer these questions, we will first give a brief description of different perspectives on cognition, one that prevails in most cognitive sciences - particularly in cognitive psychology - and one in anthropology. Three ...

Culture and quality: an anthropological perspective.